Keeping track of your friends’ birthdays is not an easy task. If you’re on Facebook, you can set up birthday alerts to ensure you don’t miss anyone’s birthday. The social media platform can send you quick notifications of upcoming birthdays and belated birthdays.
How to Set up Birthday Notifications on Facebook
Follow the steps below to set up birthday alerts on Facebook.
- Go to Settings & Privacy
- Click on Notifications in the left-hand pane
- Then, scroll down to Birthdays
- Enable notifications for friends’ birthdays
You can further customize your birthday notifications by choosing where you want to receive them. There are three options available: push, email, and SMS. If you go on Facebook at least once or twice every day, enable push notifications. If you’re not that active on the social media platform, email and SMS notifications are a better option.
Make sure to enable the option that triggers notifications for upcoming birthdays. In this manner, you won’t miss your friends’ special days. You don’t want to send them belated birthday wishes.
Of course, if your friends are not on Facebook or they have a habit of disabling and re-enabling their Facebook accounts, then the best solution is to use a calendar to keep track of their birthdays.
⇒ Quick Tip: If you don’t want to get hundreds of birthday messages from people you’ve never seen in your life, you can tweak your privacy settings and prevent Facebook from announcing your birthday. Or you can make your birthday visible only to friends.
Conclusion
Facebook can send you notifications about your friends’ upcoming birthdays. To enable this option, go to Notification Settings, select Birthdays, and simply toggle on notifications for friends’ birthdays. Then, select where you want to receive the birthday notifications.
Do you use a different app to keep track of your friends’ birthdays? Let us know in the comments below.
jeffery griffin says
All notification for birthday I turned on still not receiving no notifications of friends, birthdays, showing events instead of birthdays working on my iPhone not the iPad. Anyone know why this is happening?
James says
No.Sorry.My settings are all on.Not getting,any Birthday notifications, anymore.
Lisa Puhlhofer says
I have enabled all Notifications but I’m still not getting any re my friends birthdays. Even ones I interact with regularly. Why is this ?
Avi Jutley says
This is a very lame blog. People STOPPED getting notifications.. That means they used to get them then stopped. Obviously, they’d know why they stopped getting notifications if they had changed the notifications.
The issue is that the settings are turned on for birthday notifications and some even tried to turn off the on but the notifications still do not show up at all.
Ehab says
if i want to change the notification timing of my friends on factbook how I can do that?
Barb says
I keep getting a message that says “There was an error fetching your data” RETRY
I have messaged Facebook support twice now, but they don’t seem the need to answer back! I did send a screenshot to them also!!
Saksham says
Done all settings according to this blog, but still not getting Birthday notifications and also comments notifications.
May be there is some issue from facebook side🥲🥲
Bratten Connie says
I turned off the friends’ birthday notifications on FB, but I still see them on the top right of my newsfeed. Does anyone know why that is happening?
Aliene Harris says
No. Help yet. Still can’t see and get friends birthday notices and post
venessa says
trying to let facebook tell friends it’s my birthday
Paul says
I’m still not receving any emails or push messages with birthdays since at least beginning of 2022… all my settings are on, checked that several times
Mary says
I have done all that you have said to do but still cannot get my friends birthday on FB can you please explain
Chetan Vekariya says
No…..
I still can’t see any Birthday notifications on FB….
Following settings, notifications then onto birthdays section…..
All the settings in birthdays are ON…. yet I still don’t see any birthday notifications from any of my friends….
Can you explain why…
vaghela says
No…..
I still can’t see any Birthday notifications on FB….
Following settings, notifications then onto birthdays section…..
All the settings in birthdays are ON…. yet I still don’t see any birthday notifications from any of my friends….
Can you explain why…
Keith says
No, only FB
Neil says
No…..
I still can’t see any Birthday notifications on FB….
Following settings, notifications then onto birthdays section…..
All the settings in birthdays are ON…. yet I still don’t see any birthday notifications from any of my friends….
Can you explain why…